On This Day: Supreme Court rules in Amistad case
On March 9, 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, with one dissent, that the enslaved Africans who seized control of the ...
Rebellion and Justice, in This Week’s Open Thread
Find previous discussions in the Open Thread archive. Excepting the entreaty that you remain on topic, all of Slate’s usual ...
This Matthew McConaughey Performance Is Undoubtedly One of His Most Powerful — and It's Totally Overlooked
Spielberg takes some liberties with the characterization ( in real life, Baldwin was neither young nor inexperienced at the ...
NJ school districts at a loss: Feds say drop diversity efforts, but NJ requires them
A letter from the Trump administration told schools to end diversity programs or lose funding. NJ requires schools to include ...
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NJ school districts at a loss: Feds say drop diversity efforts, but NJ requires them
The Amistad mandate passed in the early 2000s requires ... private policies or that racism is “systemic,” such as in the case of the practice of “red-lining” used by banks to deny African ...
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No Coming Home
Gail Stallworth thought her life sentence for murder would be commuted until an unheard-of revote. Advocates say the PA Board of Pardons lacks transparency.